The people in the Narmada Valley questioning the various aspects of the project were to be urgently heard and the ground level situation reviewed with various official and non official documents, since the political demand for raising the dam height to completion, erecting 17 mts. high gates is being made with enormous pursuance at the highest echelons. The canals of Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar that are being excavated in the Sardar Sarovar affected region have also been under scrutiny and become a matter of debate both in the court and outside.
It is in this context that the Independent People's Tribunal brought together a panel of eminent persons led by Former Chief of Delhi High Court, Justice A.P. Shah, Shri. Devindra Sharma, prominent agriculture policy analyst and Prof. Jaya Sagade, Faculty at the Indian Law Society, Pune. The Panel visited the various villages in the dam and canal affected areas on 2nd June and heard hundreds of people in the presence of thousands of people in Badwani on 3rd June. A large number of documents and memoranda submitted and available to the panelists were used/ analyzed for further investigation.
The Award of this People's Tribunal on Sardar Sarovar, ISP, OSP canals and another major dam Jobat will be pronounced and read out by Justice A.P. Shah and other panelists, in the presence of representatives of various organizations and eminent persons from Bhopal, including Shri. S.C. Behar (Former Chief Secretary, Madhya Pradesh), Shri. Bharat Chapparwal (former Vice chancellor Rani Durgavati University) and Shri L.S Hardenia (National Secular Forum) on 24th June at Gandhi Bhavan, Bhopal. The detailed program is as follows. You all, along with friends and colleagues, are cordially invited!
Sincerely,
Adv. Shubhra (Ph: 9009106297)Â Â Adv.Colin Gonsalves Adv. Mohsin Khan
Time  Programme
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pronouncement of Tribunal's Report followed by brief talk by speakers
1:30 p.m.to 2:30 p.m.
Meet the Press / Press Conference
2:30 p.m.to 3:30 p.m. - Lunch
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To participate in the above event write to medha@narmada.org
